Tasks with and without asterisks

while (true) { // int number = read the number; if (firstnum == -1 || secondnum == -1 || thirdnum == -1 || fourthnum == -1 || fifthnum == -1) { System.out.println(firstnum + secondnum + thirdnum + fourthnum + fifthnum); } break; } I don't understand....The program is telling me to include -1 in the sum, but -1 was added in the sum. This was the input data: -1 11 19 9 14

"I will never work for peanuts. Amigo" is a weird line to print, but okay.

"They were specially designed for IntelliJ IDEA" but we don't install IntelliJ IDEA until level 5 lesson 3?

you can use break in the last question.

That last one was a doozy! For future challengers, the placement of where you parse your integers matters!

8 attempts?!! OMG, am I too thick to be a Java developer?!!!

lesson learn: "read you test carefully!"

Codegym you think you're sooooo smart making us include -1 in the summation ;)

So, you want to add -1 as well? Strange if we're breaking when that is entered.

int b = 0; while (true){ int a = Integer.parseInt(bb.readLine()); if (a<=-1){ b = b+a; System.out.println(b); break; } b=b+a; } please cna i get help as to why this SAYS Be sure that the program works correctly with negative numbers.